Ron Morgan's A Glass Act
An Innovative Addition to Your Entertaining Library
Part 2 in a series addresses additional floral sculptures that run the color gamut. Morgan provides wonderful ideas that are low on budget and high on creativity.
Ron Morgan easily convinces us that it's within each of our abilities to create innovative and meaningful floral art for our own homes. His latest publication, A Glass Act, uses the milieu of clear glass and water (something that we all have!) to showcase his playful interpretation of nature. In the second article of my three-part series, I will present several additional Morgan sculptures.
In Morgan's exploration of the color green, he creates a charming floating wreath of pokeweed, curly willow and dendrobium orchids. Into a clear glass globe, he floats a curly willow wreath that has been entwined with the tiny orchid blooms and masses of pokeweed spikes. I love the visual effect of the waterline as half of the sculpture is submerged and half is above the water. The water's refractive and magnifying qualities, along with the tiny bubbles of water on the orchid petals, create a mesmerizing effect, that will have your guests marveling at the dichotomy of simplicity and complexity of this design. I plan to use this sculpture as a statement on the dessert buffet of my next dinner party. I will increase the impact by raising the design on a buffet level covered in black cloth --- it will be magnificent!
Brown, a color often overlooked in centerpieces, comes to life in Morgan's cattail creation. Using nothing more than a sleek but substantial glass tumbler with a silver rim and a handful of cattail reeds, contemporary art is created! Morgan inverts a fraction of the cattails, to fill and define the shape of the tumbler, and has other cattails on long reeds soaring above the top of the container. This simple, geometric design lends height and definition to a foyer table, as part of a buffet design, or to add a vertical element to an autumn mantle. And I challenge any of my readers to have difficulty recreating this sculpture!
My final article in this series will cover more designs and share Morgan's tips for creating lasting and successful floral arrangements.
Book information
A Glass Act by Ron Morgan, photography by Keith Lewis
Published by Half Full Press; 1814 Franklin Street, Suite 815, Oakland CA 94612
ISBN: 978-0-9719552-5-7
$34.95
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